16 tiarid.t:. 



about 9 tubercles on tlie body-wliorl ; apei'ture ovate, outer lip 

 ac'utej polished within and marked with more or less transparent 

 bands. 



Hab. Throughout India, Burma, and Ceylon, and perhaps one 

 oi the most widely distributed and variable of species extending 

 as it does from Morocco iu the AA^'est to China and Australia in 

 the East. 



The principal Indian varieties would seem, according to Xevill, 

 to be as follows : — . 



Yar. subcrebra, Kevill, Hand List, p. 241. 



"A subgraniilose variety approaching M. crebrn, Lea; 



of a uniform straw-colom- ; spire not mucli produced ; last whorl 

 convex, whorls 6-7." 



Alt. 22, diam. 7-75 mm. 



Hab. Bandarawella, Ceylon. 



Var. layardi {Dohm), Nevill, Hand List, p. 242. 



Melania layardi, Dohrn, P. Z. S. 1858, p. 135; Reeve, Conch. Icon, 

 pi. 15, sp. 104 ; H. & T., C. I. pi. 73, tigs. 8, 9. 



Original descri2')tion : — Testa turrita, solidiuscula, olivacea ; anfr, 

 6-7 convex!, striis spiralibus, rugis longitudinalibus regulariter 

 ornata, ad suturam fusco-maculata : apertura ovato-oblonga, intus 

 caeruleo-albida ; columella rotundata, peristomium valde productum, 

 arcuatum. 



Alt. 35, diam. 10 mm. 



Aperture: alt. 10, diam. 5 mm. 



Hab. Ceylon; S. Canara {Beddome). 



On the S. Canara specimen Nevill makes the following 

 remarks : — 



" The first specimens, I believe, of this very characteristic variety 

 described from Continental India. They are a very fine form. — 

 long. 33, diam. 10|^ mm. — 7 whorls." 



The dimensions giveia in the original description are those 

 of Dohrn's largest specimen, he gives them, together with the 

 following description, of a smaller foi-m, thus : — 



" Var. Minor, decollata, uigrescens, ictus cserulea." 

 Alt. 22, diam. 7 mm. 

 Aperture: alt. 7, diam. 4 mm. 



Var. tigrina (Hutton), Nevill, Hand List, pt. 2, p. 242. 



Melania tigrina, llutton, J. A. S. B. 1850, p. 658 ; H. & T., U. 1. 

 pi. 110, tig. 2. 



Original description :. — Shell devoid of apex, the spire being 

 invariably much eroded ; general appearance that of M. ^^yramis, 



